English: H.J. Küchenmeister did
many inventions and got many patents (300 in Europe and the USA)
related to
radio, grammophone and sound movie. They can be considered a classic
example
of the radio / sound / sound film high-tech boom and bubble of
the
period 1928-1930: their share more than doubled after the emission, but
4 years later they went into liquidation.

USA
Chas, Pfizer & Co., Inc., Delaware, , 100 shares, blue, 1950-ers,
f 50 = 23 Euro
Vignette: 2 men sitting on each side of an entrance with the name
Pfizer above it.
The firm, now called Pfizer has recently become famous by their production of the VIAGRA-pil.

COLT

"Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them
equal". This post-Civil War slogan refers to the inventor of the
revolving fire arms, Sam Colt, who patented his invention in
1836. Ever since, about 30 million Colt weapons have been produced
giving the inventor both fame and a fortune. Read more about the history !

Colt's Patent Fire Arms manufacturing Company:certificate of odd shares,
1948,
green border, in the name of Harris, Upham & Co, with overprint in red:
"The
name of this company has been changed to Colt's Manufacturing Company,
ABNC
print, a few minor staple needle holes; above the engraving a red stamp "exactly 50
shares", price 125 Euro.

The Commercial Cable Company, New York, febr. 8th 1897, Interim bond
certificate no 320, for $ 10.000 (amount filled in by pen and by figure
punch holes) 4% gold bonds secured by mortgage on all the companies
properties, including those of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.
heretofore acquired. These bonds were issued to stockholders of the
aforementioned company in exchange for their stocks.Original signatures
of president and of secretary Albert Beetz, price 580 Euro. This certificate shows
a 15 by 5 cm drawing of 3
transatlantic telegraph cables connecting Western Europe and Canada, as
well
as connections within these continents. These cables were laid in 1983,
1984
and 1994 by the company, using the
MacKay-Bennett system,
named after the two founders of this company, J.W. Mackay and J. Gordon
Bennett. Read more about the
company's
history.